Caps don't raise the actual value, just the stat itself. It keeps the IV as is. No way to set something to 0 sadly.
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SPOILERS! Pokemon Sun and Moon Full Game Datamine General Discussion Thread
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Bottle Caps (both versions as far as I know) can be traded for in Festival Plaza for the Red/Blue/Green/Yellow shards, which you can occasionally get while searching for treasures in Poke Pelago. They'll take some effort to get, but Caps won't be super rare.
I know, that's why I wrote "raise one stat's IV" in quotes haha. It doesn't change the actual IV value, just the stat. Stat-wise, it's the same thing. It's only relevant to breeding and Hidden Power. So to re-iterate, I'm wondering if there's a way to reduce the stats so that the stat is equivalent to having 0 IVs in Speed. So far, I'm only hearing ways to max it, not min it. Looks like the answer is no, which is unfortunate.
Also, no word on being able to see exact number of EVs?
No and no, sadly.
There's clearly a point in getting 0 IVs in Attack and Speed where warranted so there will still be breeding to cover that blind spot that bottle caps and Hyper Training can't address.
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Silver Bottlecaps only rise one stat, so you can use five of those instead of a Gold one if you really want a 0 Stat.
I'm pretty sure Lascelle's point was that you'll probably have to breed to get the 0IV in the first place.
Good news on the alola/not alola form front. If you breed non-alola forms with an everstone, they'll come out non-alola.
Which is still honestly really silly and feels like you should require an item to breed alola forms from non-alola but hey!
source, kazo: https://twitter.com/KazoWAR/status/798036010764353536
Which is still honestly really silly and feels like you should require an item to breed alola forms from non-alola but hey!
source, kazo: https://twitter.com/KazoWAR/status/798036010764353536
I can't seem to find out anywhere, is Super training still in Sun/Moon or is it being replaced with Hyper Training? From my understanding, Hyper training is only for IVs, not EVs. If that's the case does super training still exist?
super training is out and more or less repalced by a combination of pokelego (which allows you to train large amounts of pokemon at once over a period of time without you needing to touch them) and EV drinks available via festival plaza.
I think this is only for the normal versions.
Alola forms with everstones should still produce alola versions. The issue was that normal versions bred without everstones result in alola versions for...some...reason
It's still kinda annoying because for some pokemon, you'll have to bank parents with different natures, instead of just having one with perfect spread then alter Dittos if a different nature is need.
But hey at least it's an everstone instead of some bs new item.
Yeah. It's for the normal parents. Alola ones will give Alola offsprings.
The reason might be radiation. Everstone's radiation is strong enough to prevent a Pokémon from evolving and to send the personality genes to babies. Thus, this radiation is strong enough to supercede the environmental impact of being in Alola.
The reason might be radiation. Everstone's radiation is strong enough to prevent a Pokémon from evolving and to send the personality genes to babies. Thus, this radiation is strong enough to supercede the environmental impact of being in Alola.
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Sorry for asking again but has anyone figured out how to obtain HA starters or does no one have one yet?
you can get at least some of the starters in the wild by island scanning. HAs can be found on pokemon who are called as allies by wild mons(by chaining). Assuming starters can be called in this manner, you can get HA starters
Not Alola starters though, we dont know how to get those
I'm curious how the metagame is going to develop... How things are going to be initially set up.
Will some ORAS ubers drop down (at least temporarily)? Darkrai and Mega-Kang have been nerfed, and the new environment might make others less over-centralizing like Greninja and Landorus.
Will some new Pokemon be ubers instantly? In particular, Pheromosa, Xurkitree, and Kartana have immense power but a very limited movepool, so I feel like they could be left alone initially and see how players deal with the new threats.
Will some old rules still be applied? In the face of these new threats, Baton Pass chaining might not be as powerful or unstoppable as it once was. Swagger might not be so bad anymore. Maybe even Shadow Tag (Assuming Mega Gengar is still banned), seeing as Dugtrio might be around more often.
I know I haven't said much or have any kind of influence, but my opinion is that it would be more beneficial to let everything that can *potentially* not be broken in, see how the metagame develops, and test/ban as necessary. There's a lot of new things - we shouldn't be so keen on keeping the ORAS rules in place.
Will some ORAS ubers drop down (at least temporarily)? Darkrai and Mega-Kang have been nerfed, and the new environment might make others less over-centralizing like Greninja and Landorus.
Will some new Pokemon be ubers instantly? In particular, Pheromosa, Xurkitree, and Kartana have immense power but a very limited movepool, so I feel like they could be left alone initially and see how players deal with the new threats.
Will some old rules still be applied? In the face of these new threats, Baton Pass chaining might not be as powerful or unstoppable as it once was. Swagger might not be so bad anymore. Maybe even Shadow Tag (Assuming Mega Gengar is still banned), seeing as Dugtrio might be around more often.
I know I haven't said much or have any kind of influence, but my opinion is that it would be more beneficial to let everything that can *potentially* not be broken in, see how the metagame develops, and test/ban as necessary. There's a lot of new things - we shouldn't be so keen on keeping the ORAS rules in place.
So if I remember right, there's Silver bottle caps that increase 1 while gold increase all. Are both purchasable or can be traded for? Or only the silver bottle cap?
Also, LEVEL 10 SALAMENCE https://archive-media.nyafuu.org/vp/image/1479/09/1479096150920.jpg
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swagger is always going to be bad for as long as its core purpose still remains. it wasn't particularly banned for being too strong (though swagplay klefki was a pretty painful time) so much as it was banned for being a move that created strategies relying on RNG rather than smart play, and if anything lowering the accuracy (even if it's by a small amount) just cements that point
so this matches up with the encounter tables and the "slots" people were talking about. It's 1% SOS call
curious, i looked through the other 1% encounters. Most of them are just rarer pokemon (feebas is there, surprise) or jokes like luvdisc. Salamence here is the real winner, though. The other big ticket options are Butterfree (who is easy to evolve in the first place), Whiscash (via fishing, I think) and Dragonite (which seems to be found via fishing in areas with level ranges of 10-59 so ehhhh)
Did anyone how to access the IV checkers IV checking function? I've heard it takes more than just walking up to him and asking.
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